Sorry, there was a word wrong in previous post.
That Beverley accident isn't just negligence or
poor behaviour on the part of the instructor.
In a heirarchical system like the GFA commands
come down from on high and responsibility flows upwards.
The instructor appears to have been negligent.
What about the club instructor panel to whom he
is responsible? The RTO/ops, the CTO/ops and the
GFA Board who insist on having this system? Why
was somebody who didn't have current medical
certification even acting as an instructor?
Surely losing the medical loses the ability to
act as an instructor in any capacity.
I just showed this report to an Army attack
helicopter instructor (1800 hours military and
200 civilian fixed wing and he is being told he
is light on experience to be an instructor) and
asked him what would happen if this happened in
the Army (another heirarchical system). There
would be a Board of Inquiry and people from
Chief of Army on down would have some serious
explaining to do. Careers would most likely be ended. Charges might be brought.
At another time and place I visited one bloke
was getting his single seat glider ready to fly
when it transpired he was less than 3 months out
from a heart bypass and hadn't even got
clearance to drive. The instructor of the day
had also had a heart bypass a few years before
and his CASA PPL medical was currently under suspension.
A few months ago I heard of an incident where a
senior instructor was taking a student for her
first instructional flight and he let her fly
down to 800 feet joining circuit whereupon she
managed to get the glider into a spin. The
instructor did recover at about 200 feet AGL and landed OK.
These were just random occurrences. I'm sure
there are many more. The Ararat crash in April 1
2012 should have led to a wholesale review of
the system and a serious purge of instructor
ranks. It was almost the same as a crash at
Beverley several years before where the outcome
wasn't so tragic and the crash Justin posted has
some parallels to both. Instructor incompetence.
Would you let anyone you cared about learn to
fly in a system filled with arseclowns like
this? Professional aviators who also glide should be ashamed of their sport.
The GFA clearly needs adult supervision. It is
evidently unable to properly manage its own affairs.
When will the carnage end?
Mike
08:29 AM 2/11/2017, you wrote:
On 11/02/2017 9:07 AM, Mark Newton wrote:
Of course, this is all theorizing. Weâve had
70 years to find out: Have any GFA duty
instructors been found liable for any glider accidents?
Not sure if specifically liable, but the
Beverley PW-5 was written off due to poor
instructor behaviour. That instructor is no
longer with the club, or I believe gliding any
longer. The club had the glider self-insured so
that rules out that bit, but the pilot was
badly injured, so the health insurance side
might have something going against the
instructor that approved the student to fly the
aircraft. The SOAR report was published in the
GFA mag, but I've attached a copy of it. I
reckon this is about as close to negligence
that you can get on behalf of an instructor.
--
Justin
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